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What does it mean to go native? 16 Nov 2012 | 09:48 pm
By now you’ll have heard an awful lot about native advertising. Like the fact that it will save us all (maybe), that news companies see a financial future in it, and that it while it sure can attract ...
France’s digital kiosk boosts revenue four-fold, secures new financing 14 Nov 2012 | 08:45 pm
Lekiosk, the French virtual newsstand app that lets readers subscribe to several magazines for a flat rate, has just been refuelled, and is ready to grow. The company is moving forward with €5.6 milli...
Flipboard and Pulse try two very different tactics for tilling the mobile revenue landscape 12 Nov 2012 | 10:29 pm
When aggregation/news-reading apps are first launched, their founders tend to emit a hazily rose-tinted view of future revenue prospects. Flush with venture capital, a fledgling startup’s first priori...
Looking to engage your audience on a new platform? Why not stage a magazine. 9 Nov 2012 | 08:31 pm
A Streetcar Named Wired? The Real Inspector Horse & Hound? In San Francisco, periodicals are leaping off the page and onto the stage with Pop-Up Magazine. Last night at Davies Symphony Hall, the 7th "...
Sale of the FT: Does Pearson protest too much? 8 Nov 2012 | 02:13 pm
A £1bn sale of the Financial Times is under active consideration, Bloomberg said today – only for the story to be immediately denied by its owner. Pearson, the FTSE 100 media group, issued a stateme...
The Telegraph places a porous paywall in path of international readers 2 Nov 2012 | 07:26 pm
Britain’s Telegraph Media Group (TMG), publisher of The Daily Telegraph and The Sunday Telegraph, has instated a metered digital subscription model for international visitors to its website and users ...
Steady circulation figures disguise rising weight of digital subscriptions in U.S. newspaper industry 31 Oct 2012 | 08:30 pm
Digital subscribers are accounting for an ever-more-generous slice of American newspapers’ circulation pumpkin this Halloween, according to the Audit Bureau of Circulation (ABC)’s latest biannual stud...
Recommended reads: Newspapers in India, Hurricane Sandy and editorial standards on Twitter 30 Oct 2012 | 09:58 pm
It has now been said repeatedly that India – together with Brazil – is a booming market for newspapers. Factors include economic growth, urbanization, an expanding middle class and rising literacy rat...
In the bloody battlefield of regional journalism, can Monty out-general the rest? 30 Oct 2012 | 08:50 pm
After the high-profile merger of publishing giants Penguin and Random House comes a development in regional news with a significance that belies its parochial implications. Former Mirror Group chief e...
Confetti in the House of Random Penguins 29 Oct 2012 | 09:24 pm
It’s official: Penguin and Random House are betrothed, their parent companies Pearson and Bertelsmann announced today. As is often the case with arranged marriages, it is hoped that this union will a...
